Denver, CO will be host to a Human Trafficking National Summit September 11-13, 2015

DENVER - June 2, 2015 - PRLog -- It was reported during an FBI press release on June 23, 2014 that there were 18 children rescued and 11 pimps arrested in Colorado during the annual FBI Innocence lost string operation. With the news that Colorado is experiencing human trafficking, Angela Sandoval-Graf, RN was moved to organize a national summit that will kick-off on Friday, September 11th, 2015 at the Infinity Park Event Center in Denver.

CAA is working to provide clinical treatment to children victims of sex trafficking in Colorado and raising awareness nationally. CAA will build the first medical Research Human Trafficking (HT) Healing Center specialized in treating the multifaceted medical conditions HT patients suffer with to begin the rehabilitation phase of healing.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, human trafficking has become the second fastest growing criminal industry — just behind drug trafficking — with children accounting for roughly half of all victims source: USA Today- 1/22/2012. Many advocates believe it is now the #1 crime in America.

CAA is conducting a nine month campaign that started on January 1st, 2015 which is leading up to a series of events from September 10th through September 13th, 2015 under a project umbrella called “Festival Weekend.” The events include a Denver area community awareness promotion that will culminate in the start of Festival Weekend on Thursday, September 10th. This will include simultaneous community presentations and evening prayer services in Denver high risk neighborhoods and the cap to a national Prayer Campaign against HT designed to engage faith based network partners for prayer warring. The campaign began in January 2015 in effort to pave the way to Festival Weekend HT activities. CAA’s goal is to partner with 500 faith based entities across the nation and have key national Ambassadors to coordinate prayer warring engagement as well as to educate on human trafficking issues at the grassroots level.

The National Summit conference will take place on September 11th, 2015. The summit address the HT issues locally in CO and in our nation’s communities, current research, and resources. In turn, the goal is to brainstorm, create processes, networking partnerships, and add to research projects to develop sound evidenced based solutions for public safety and to restore the lives of victims successfully. CAA is looking to implement a research case study with a cohort group emphasizing on the medical aspect of therapeutic therapy. Angela Sandoval, Graf, CAA Founder says, “We believe this national summit will bring great success for this much needed campaign and gather people together to stand united and be a voice for these victims.”

A Project Restoration Expo will be incorporated into the Summit event with vendors and exhibitors from across the state and nation to give attendees a vast array of resources and education.

Some of the key speakers and topics will include: Susan Norris, Author of Rescuing Hope; Jerome Elam, HT Survivor and Advocate, Human Trafficking Realization – hidden secret of HT boys exposed; Laura Lederer, JD President of Global Centurion. Lederer, Former Senior Advisor on Trafficking, U.S. Department of State, Physiological Implications of HT Victims- Health Consequences of Sex Trafficking & Implications for Identifying Victims; Heather Davis, Founder Mothers Against Human Trafficking; Dwyane and Terry Meeks, (UCAM) Family Reunification; Yvonne Williams, Co-Founder and President of Network for Cultural Change (formerly Trafficking in America Task Force), Prevention Interventions; Greg Bristol, Founder (HTTI) Law Enforcement officers; and many more.

Ending the summit on Sunday, September 13th, 2015 the Project Restoration HopeFEST Music Festival will round out Festival Weekend’s HT related events. The music festival will be the backdrop to the project’s prayer campaign and culminate in a National Day of Prayer against HT as well as a family and community oriented music festival event featuring four stages of national, regional, and local music groups and artists, cultural exhibits, youth areas, vendors and independent exhibitors, an amateur boxing invitational, and more.

For more information about the summit and to register please visit www.caaprojectrestoration.org  or call 720-325-3239